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title: The castle is visible from almost any location in Vaduz, being perch… — Vaduz · tree and pragmatics
description: The castle is visible from almost any location in Vaduz, being perched atop a steep hill in the middle of the town. Who acts: castle. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Vaduz» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Vaduz, sentence 35

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From Wikipedia, [«Vaduz»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaduz), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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The castle is visible from almost any location in Vaduz, being perched atop a steep hill in the middle of the town.

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**Who acts:** castle · **What happens:** be, perch · **To what, where:** location

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Vaduz». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (castle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Vaduz:35
# text = The castle is visible from almost any location in Vaduz, being perched atop a steep hill in the middle of the town.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	visible	visible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	location	location	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Vaduz	Vaduz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	perched	perch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
14	atop	atop	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	steep	steep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the castle |  |  | any location in Vaduz |  | visible *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **perch** | gerund · passive | the castle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | atop a steep hill in the middle of the town | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V» |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Vaduz», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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